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| 8 | [[caption-width-right:349:Welcome to [[TropeNamers Immortality Field]] Resort. A place where [[INeedAFreakingDrink going out for drinks]] then [[MutualKill killing each other]] does not [[BarBrawl necessarily]] occur {{in that order}}.]] |
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| 10 | -> ''"There's something funny about these woods... [p]eople who come here seem to have a lot of difficulty dying."'' |
| 11 | -->-- '''Ranger Roy''', ''Literature/{{Apeshit}}'' |
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| 13 | Simply put, it is a place that [[ImmortalityInducer induces immortality]]. It varies as to what kind of {{Immortality}} it provides. At most, it could give you either {{Complete|Immortality}} or ResurrectiveImmortality. At the least, it [[TheAgeless stops the aging]] or [[LongLived prolong the lives]] of those affected. Among other things, it could be TheShangriLa, a PocketDimension, a PlaceBeyondTime, an [[{{Arcadia}} unassuming grassland]], or a {{Cyberspace}} but the common ground is that as long as you stay within its AreaOfEffect (and the [[PhlebotinumBreakdown effect itself stays in place]]), you will not have to worry too much about dying. Just a [[SocietyOfImmortals place full of Immortals]] does not qualify here; they have to be immortal ''because'' they stay there. |
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| 15 | This could potentially overlap with SealedEvilInADuel, if the inhabitants are not on good terms. If it only favors one side of a conflict, it also provides HomeFieldAdvantage and if the favored side has a DomainHolder, they may be the real source of the immortality. If it's consciously not letting its occupants die, it's also a GeniusLoci. If [[{{Prison}} it's not letting them go]] even if they want to, it could lead to AndIMustScream. Leaving the place is also not an assurance of [[MortalityEnsues resumption of a mortal life]] as NoImmortalInertia may occur instead, but if they're lucky, its effects may [[TimeDelayedDeath take time to wane]]. |
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| 17 | A sub-trope of ImmortalityInducer and PlaceOfPower. |
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| 19 | Contrast with SoulJar, which has to be well-hidden to continue benefiting from it and can work even when the beneficiary is far away, and AmuletOfDependency, if the ImmortalityInducer has to stay ''[[RussianReversal on you]]''. Compare with GeoEffects, which provide other varieties of boosts from being in a specific location, and ReinforceField, which enhances objects' structural integrity. Also, see HumanPopsicle and SleeperStarship for anti-aging examples that require suspended animation or sleeping for a long time. |
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| 21 | While [[ResurrectionTropes Resurrection]] is a feature of both RespawnPoint and Immortality Field, the latter has it only as one of its possible functions. Revival of PlayerCharacters is a common feature of VideoGames so unless immortality is [[JustifiedExtraLives noted]] to be caused by the setting, it is not an example. |
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| 24 | !!Examples: |
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| 28 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 29 | * ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': When Lippy is corrupted and sets up base in a LoveHotel, she makes it so all attacks are negated or blocked, because "In the world of love, there are no weapons allowed." This isn't a problem for her because she "fights" with projectiles [[CharmPerson that makes people fall in love with her]]. |
| 30 | * ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': The titular dungeon (and it's implied most other dungeons) has had a spell placed over it that enables anyone killed on its premises to be resurrected with regular healing magic. It's theorized that the spell "forbids death", preventing one's soul from leaving their body when they die, so that once their body is in shape to support life again, they immediately return to it. Some characters are in the dungeon to study and replicate the spell, which could theoretically grant immortality. However, it has its limits: the greater the damage to the body, the more powerful and skilled the healer has to be to successfully revive it. Losing as little as 1/13th of your mass, if it can't be put back together (such as being reduced to ash), dramatically reduces the chances of resurrection. As well, as the body decays, so does its bond to its soul; eventually the soul breaks loose and becomes a wandering spirit, usually searching for [[DemonicPossession a new body to inhabit]]. |
| 31 | * ''Anime/DICE2005'' has D.I.C.E.'s [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Body of Elders]] looking for the gate of AnotherDimension called "Heron Universe" to gain endless life and youth, but they died before they can reach it. When the F-99 team visited it, they discovered that the natives of Heron indeed have immortality and it was given to them by the [[DomainHolder Immortal Pharaoh]] (so no hope there for the people of the other universe). In a subversion, it's implied that they remain immortal even if they leave, as it turns out that [[MysteriousBacker one of their organization's benefactors]] named [[MiniatureSeniorCitizen Smyl Iri]] was a Heronian all along. Like the Phantom Knight, he aims to end the immortality of Heronians because he believes it causes stagnancy. The Immortal Pharaoh was then revealed to be [[spoiler:possessed by the Lumosword, a LivingWeapon obsessed with life. When [[TheHero Jet]] killed the Lumosword, the real Immortal Pharaoh was [[DyingAsYourself freed]] and [[MortalityEnsues regular time and lifespan]] returned to the Heronians]]. |
| 32 | * The ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' continuity established that Digimon that died in the [[{{Cyberspace}} DigiWorld]] would eventually resurrect in the "Village of Beginnings" as Digi-Eggs. If a Digimon dies in the real world, however, they stay dead, like [[spoiler:Gotsumon, Pumpkinmon, and Wizardmon]]. Somehow, this is apparently inverted for Myotismon, who died in the real world and came back. Then died again, and came back again in [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 the next series]]. In fact, he's only KilledOffForReal in the Digital World. By the time of ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'', Leomon had returned after dying in the first series, only for him to die in the real world. [[spoiler:However, the [[CosmicRetcon Reboot]] of the [=DigiWorld=] allowed permanently deceased Digimon to be reborn.]] |
| 33 | * ''Anime/DogDays'' has this as one of its primary plot points. Special areas exist on [[SugarBowl Flonyard]] where people who take damage instead suffer ClothingDamage or temporarily turn into super deformed animal-head things. With the risk of injury removed, war is instead waged for literal [[WarForFunAndProfit fun and profit]] (along with being useful live-fire exercises to prepare for the occasional demon attack). However, its defense is not absolute. The afformentioned demons can cause its power to temporarily wane, and people from Earth don't get any protection at all (though Cinque is tough enough that this doesn't really matter). |
| 34 | * General Rilldo from ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' turned the surface of Planet M-2 and himself into a form of metal that he can solidify and liquefy, enabling him to fuse and diffuse with the environment at will. This also means that his consciousness can inhabit and form a body from any metal on the planet, effectively giving him unlimited repairs. Subverted because somehow, he was killed by only a combined Kamehameha from Goku, Pan, and Trunks, even though there's still metal all over the planet that he could have used. [[spoiler:However, it might have something to do with being possessed by Baby and he just didn't bother to let the General revive]]. |
| 35 | * The setting of the ''Manga/OnePiece'' special ''[[Recap/OnePieceTVSP11HeartOfGold Heart of Gold]]'' is the stomach of a lantern fish whose lamp glows with a material called Pure Gold which can stop aging. Since the glow radiates inside him, those still living within will never age past their current point if they stay in him. Two of the characters, Olga and Acier, are two such people. Though Olga can remain her age outside of him due to having some of the Pure Gold in a ring she wears. |
| 36 | * Bonz from the Duelist Kingdom StoryArc of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' used the "[[CameBackWrong Call of the Haunted]]" [[FieldPowerEffect Field Spell Card]][[note]]a Trap Card in the US version to match the [[Tabletopgame/YuGiOh card game]][[/note]] against Joey/Jonouchi in the [[HomefieldAdvantage Graveyard]] terrain. It revives his monsters into [[TheUndead Zombie]]-types (if they weren't already) with [[CameBackStrong additional 10%]] of their original attack power, but with [[AchillesHeel 0 defense]], each time that they are killed. Coupled with the effects of the terrain and the anime version of "Pumpking the King of Ghosts," the Zombies' ATK powers kept on increasing each turn. However, Joey defeated Bonz when he played Shield & Sword, a card that switches ATK and DEF powers of all monster cards in the field, then killed one of his Zombie monsters with a [[CherryTapping rather weak monster]] and dealt its full Battle Damage. |
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| 39 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 40 | * ''ComicBook/TheBadBadPlace'': Within the [[EldritchLocation Castavette Estate]], nobody can age or die, a benefit to anyone staying there with [[BigBad Lady Malise]]'s blessing -- and an eternal curse to those imprisoned there. Serena is shot in the chest during the finale, and doesn't even notice it until she steps off the front porch, forcing her back over the threshold in order to escape death. [[spoiler:Originally born in the 19th century, Ned Trench spent most of the early 20th century as a guest of the Estate and only left in disgust following World War II, hence why he's aged into an old man.]] |
| 41 | * ''Franchise/TheDCU'': |
| 42 | ** There is no death in [[TheShangriLa Nanda Parbat]]. It is sometimes combined with its inhabitants [[YearInsideHourOutside experiencing time differently]]. |
| 43 | ** [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} The Phantom Zone]] (which lends its name to [[PhantomZone another trope]]) keeps its prisoners alive. Outside of its intended use of punishing criminals humanely, it has also been used to save dying heroes, like the lead-poisoned Mon-El pre-ComicBook/{{Crisis|OnInfiniteEarths}}. |
| 44 | ** Planets with yellow suns like Earth make Kryptonians, barring KryptoniteFactor, {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le and LongLived. The inverse is in planets with red suns. Taken to [[ExaggeratedTrope extremes]] with ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'', where Superman stayed inside the Earth's sun for 15,000 years and emerged as a god-loke. |
| 45 | ** [[Comicbook/WonderWoman Themyscira]] ([[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 or Paradise Island]]) keeps the Amazons immortal. Amazons lose their immortality when they leave for the "Patriarch's World" and, for a while, it was decreed by Aphrodite's Law that the Amazons would become mortal if a man sets foot on the island. [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Post-crisis Themyscira]] moved further and further away from this concept, at one point having ''weapons'' vanish on the island instead of their harmful effects and then losing even that. |
| 46 | ** The DCU's version of the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Gods of Mount Olympus]] [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly need prayer badly]] to remain immortal, but if there aren't enough worshipers and The Fates are weakened or killed, then their only option is to remain on Mount Olympus; anywhere else, they will become mortal. |
| 47 | ** The [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Lazarus Pits]], all metaphysically connected through {{Ley Line}}s, overlap with FountainOfYouth but zigzag in regard to being an Immortality Field. By bathing in a pit, an injured person can have their wounds healed, the old are made young, and the deceased can be brought back to life.[[note]]For maximum efficiency however, someone must be placed in the Lazarus Pit within a relatively short period of time following their death. Although older bodies may be resurrected, there is [[CameBackWrong no guarantee that they will return in perfect condition]].[[/note]] However, anyone who uses the pit and is not injured or dying will be killed. Also, each pit can [[ItOnlyWorksOnce only be used once]], but its user will retain its effects even without staying in one and they're free to use another the next time they're in critical condition. In the {{Elseworld}} story ''Comicbook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'', Ra's al Ghul discovered a way to eliminate the maddening side effects and developed a way to create lasting immortality. He offered Batman a chance to join him, but when they both submerged themselves in the pit, Ra's died and Batman became partially immortal, aging one year for every century that passes. [[spoiler:It's further revealed that that single Pit was permanently changed, conferring this immortality on anyone who bathes in it.]] |
| 48 | * In one ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' story, Scrooge and company go in search for the FountainOfYouth, finding it in the polar regions. The immortality it bestows unfortunately only works like this, and leaving will result in NoImmortalInertia, though it also keeps the land within the radius abundant, so it's not all that unpleasant. After a misunderstanding causing the denizens to think that Donald and co. stole food (actually Scrooge having suffered non-lethal DeathByDeaging), which is a serious crime, they escape across the border. Donald and the boys are unaffected, since they had only been within the radius for a few days, while Scrooge is aged back to normal. The denizens, on the other hand, have to halt the pursuit or risk crumbling into dust. |
| 49 | * ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': |
| 50 | ** ''ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist'': The Eighth City is a brutally hellish realm that could only be reached through a dimensional gateway located in the remotest part of China. It used to be an empty place, until the elders of K'un-L'un turned it into a prison for many demons and monsters that plagued the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven. It's an absolutely dreadful place populated by all evils in the world, where none of its inhabitants are able to age, and they are eventually driven mad by their prolonged stay. |
| 51 | ** ''ComicBook/TheThanosImperative'' introduces ''an entire universe'', appropriately called "[[EldritchLocation Cancerverse]]", where death is meaningless and the universe is overflowing with life to the point of it becoming "full". It all began when somehow, somebody ''[[TheDeathOfDeath killed Death]]'' and [[DeathTakesAHoliday allowed Life to grow unrestrained]]. The entire universe is under the influence of [[EldritchAbomination Elder Gods]] and, using the Fault that has opened up in the "main" universe 616, they are now intent on corrupting the rest of reality. |
| 52 | * An early story has ''ComicBook/{{Thorgal}}'' find a secret valley where three young women live, with the youngest following Thorgal to learn about the outside world her sisters forbade her from experiencing. Unfortunately, it turns out living in the valley had kept the sisters immortal, and Thorgal [[RapidAging finds the youngest sister's mummified corpse next to him the morning after leaving]]. |
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| 55 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 56 | * Izuku's Quirk in ''Fanfic/DeathNeedNotApply'' emits one around Musutafu, rendering it impossible to die within the city. |
| 57 | * ''Fanfic/LostStormsStormysForgottenPast'': Rainbow Land is implied to be like this. The now Really700YearsOld Stormy hasn't grown a centimeter since arriving at 6 years old. |
| 58 | * Actively exploited in ''Fanfic/LotusSeeds'' with the Lotus Eaters' realm. One guest was put there by her father because he needed the time to work on a cure for her terminal illness, and Shen Yuan is utterly impervious to the System's attempt to "delete his account" as long as he stays in the dimension. |
| 59 | * ''Fanfic/TheMLPLoops'': Peppermint Pylons, first featured in ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/98568/117/mlp-time-loops/mlp-loops-111 Story 111.2]]'': |
| 60 | -->'''Scootaloo:''' I got one of Pinkie's video game pylons active. So even if [Death] gets me, I'll just happily respawn as long as the pylon remains on. |
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| 63 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 64 | * ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': The lives of the citizens of Atlantis are prolonged by a piece of a comet which they call the "Heart of Atlantis". Kida herself is roughly 8,500 -- 8,800 years old (according to Milo), but she physically appears to be in her mid-20s. |
| 65 | * ''Anime/ExpelledFromParadise'': [[SpaceStation DEVA]] is made to be a haven for humans following their [[BrainUploading digitization]]. Without the need for food, water, or sleep, or having sickness and death, humans have supposedly evolved to [[TheHedonist enjoy "higher entertainment"]]. When Angela [[IChooseToStay chose to stay]] on Earth in a human body, she's just as the title described, but it seems that she doesn't regret it. |
| 66 | * In ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', as long as a video game character is in their own game, they will regenerate upon death. If they are in another game, they are dead permanently. [[WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet The sequel]] has shown that [[spoiler:it's possible to add the code of a character from one game to a different game]], though it isn't elaborated upon. |
| 67 | [[/folder]] |
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| 69 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 70 | * ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'': Dormammu's Dark Dimension is a PlaceBeyondTime. Therefore, he can promise eternal life, as time does not affect the residents. [[spoiler:This bites him hard when Strange introduces a time loop into the Dark Dimension. Dormammu doesn't know how time magic works -- he doesn't even know what time ''is'' -- so he can't shift himself out of the loop like Kaecilius's zealots are able to do. His options are to either keep killing Strange, who may or may not be aware that he's being killed depending on how the time loop works, or accepting Strange's bargain. As repeatedly killing Strange would trap him in the same moment, the other choice wins out.]] |
| 71 | * ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'': Drinking from the Holy Grail extends the drinker's life... but it cannot be taken outside the Grail Temple's Great Seal because it will [[CollapsingLair cause the place to collapse]]. To continue extending one's life, they must stay in the temple and repeatedly drink from the Grail like the Grail Knight, as supported by an excerpt from the {{Novelization}}.[[note]]Taken from [[https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/47254/why-didn-t-the-holy-grail-give-indiana-jones-eternal-life this discussion]].[[/note]] |
| 72 | -->The knight descended the rest of the stairs. "Many times my spirit faltered, and I could not bear to drink from the cup, so I aged, a year for every day I did not drink. But now at last, I am released to death with honor, for this brave knight-errant cometh to take my place." |
| 73 | * Downplayed for Jumanji in ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle''. Instead of [[WhenDimensionsCollide colliding with the real world]] like in [[Film/{{Jumanji}} the first film]], it remained as a [[AnotherDimension separate world]] that follows VideoGame logic. It gives the players three VideoGameLives each as a form of limited ResurrectiveImmortality. However, in Jumanji where EverythingIsTryingToKillYou and most of them were given {{Weaksauce Weakness}}es, this seems like a fair trade-off. |
| 74 | * Discussed in ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', when [[Literature/KingSolomonsMines Alan Quatermain]] mentioned that "UsefulNotes/{{Africa}} wouldn't let him die." It was unclear whether it was literal or figurative and it didn't help that he died in UsefulNotes/{{Mongolia}}. However, the film [[AmbiguousEnding ends ambiguously]] with a WitchDoctor summoning a storm with a ritual and lightning striking his grave. |
| 75 | * ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'': The museums/places where the Tablet of Akhmenrah is kept becomes this. The third movie revealed that it was intended to bring Ahkmenrah back to life each night to keep the royal family together, but its powers turned out to have an even greater scope, including [[AnimateInanimateObject animating inanimate objects]]. The previous museum guards in the first movie were also revitalized from years of exposure to its power. Though it only brings a single building's displays to life, they can roam anywhere as long as it's nighttime because it's the domain of Khonsu, the [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Egyptian moon god]] that gave the tablet its powers. Of course, their LogicalWeakness is that they will turn to dust if they are outside during sunrise. |
| 76 | * ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales'': Captain Armando Salazar and [[FlyingDutchman his crew]] were cursed by [[TheBermudaTriangle the Devil's Triangle]] to become TheUndead. They were trapped in the cave where they died until Jack Sparrow "betrayed" his compass, enabling them to sail the seas again. However, setting foot on land will [[ReducedToDust reduce them to dust]]. |
| 77 | * The Ba'ku world of ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'' produces a form of metaphasic radiation that not only grants immortality but also reverses the aging process in those older than the threshold of physical maturity. |
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| 80 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 81 | * By the end of ''Literature/{{Apeshit}}'', it is revealed that the reason why none of the characters in the book end up dying despite the massive physical trauma their bodies endure is because of a supernatural force in the woods that prevents anybody there from dying. In the sequel ''Literature/{{Clusterfuck}}'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:this is because of a meteor that crashed into the valley millions of years ago, the strange mineral giving off an unusual radiation]] that leaves those who are near it immortal. Unfortunately, while it makes people immortal, it does not make them invulnerable, making them a Type 2 or 3 form of undead on the SlidingScaleOfUndeadRegeneration. |
| 82 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 83 | ** Death's domain is located outside of time, so things either don't age or do so only if he allows it. His adopted daughter Ysabella comes off as a BrattyTeenageDaughter at first before you learn she's been sixteen years old for more than thirty years. |
| 84 | ** Alberto Malich once performed the Death-summoning Rite of Ashk-Ente in reverse, believing it would keep Death away from him. Instead, it summoned ''him'' to Death's domain, where he has lived as Death's manservant ever since without aging a day. But if he goes back to the world, he starts aging again (except on Hogswatchnight). |
| 85 | ** The Tooth Fairy's domain is made of children's dreams. And since children have no concept of death, Death cannot enter it. As a consequence, nothing in the Tooth Fairy's realm can be killed. Of course, this does not mean the place is [[FateWorseThanDeath safe by any means]]... nightmares are dreams too. |
| 86 | * ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'': [[SingleBiomePlanet Planet Arrakis]] sustains the immortality of the GodEmperor's SandWorm-infused body. Aside from extreme old age or [[NukeEm atomic explosions]], the only way to kill a sandworm is by completely drowning them [[KillItWithWater in water]]. Good luck finding any on [[ThirstyDesert a planet also known as Dune]]. |
| 87 | * ''Literature/FateApocrypha'': |
| 88 | ** Avicebron's ultimate golem, Golem Keter Malkuth (also known as "Adam"), projects a Reality Marble called "Paradise" that protects it from all harm so long as its feet remain firmly planted on the ground. |
| 89 | ** Achilles has an inversion. His spear, Diatrekhon Aster Lonkhe, allows him to create a small area where his famous invincibility is deactivated, so [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen he can fight his enemy on equal terms]]. |
| 90 | * No one can age or die within the Literature/LandOfOz, thanks to it being a fairyland. However, "no one can die" doesn't mean "no one can be harmed". AndIMustScream scenarios from the series include: being dashed to pieces on sharp rocks, being trapped in a crevice beyond rescue, being chopped to pieces and living as a sentient head forgotten in someone's cabinet, being chopped to pieces and scattered at the bottom of a river. Though at least the last one was only a hypothetical that didn't get enacted. |
| 91 | * The [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Adventurers]] (players stuck in their "Elder Tale" {{Digital Avatar}}s' bodies) in ''Literature/LogHorizon'''s RPGMechanicsVerse revive in a cathedral when they are killed because of the world's mechanics as an [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame MMORPG]]. [[spoiler:However, [[NonPlayerCharacter Landers]] don't]]. |
| 92 | * Defied in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. The Numenoreans were blessed to live up to [[LongLived more than 300 years]] yet they still envied the Elves. Sauron tricked the Numenorean King Ar-Pharazon into thinking that those who enter and rule the [[MeaningfulName Undying Lands]] will gain immortality (they won't; its native inhabitants are immortal to begin with and it doesn't matter where they are), but doing so violates the Ban of the Valar's [[ForbiddenZone restriction against mortals]]. For this transgression, [[TopGod Eru Iluvatar]] sank Ar-Pharazon's invasion fleet and Numenor beneath the oceans, removed the Undying Lands from mortal reach, and changed the shape of the world from a [[FlatWorld disc]] into a globe. |
| 93 | * Valhalla (and, implicitly, Folkvangr) work this way in ''Literature/MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard''. Einherjar don't age no matter what, and if they die in Valhalla, they will be brought back to life in time for dinner. If they die outside, however, they're gone for good. |
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| 96 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 97 | * In ''Series/KaitouSentaiLupinrangerVsKeisatsuSentaiPatranger'', people can be killed inside the PocketDimension of [[spoiler:Dogranio Yaboon's "Status Gold: Physical Protection" [[TreasureChestCavity safe]], like what happened with Zamigo]], but [[spoiler:the Lupinrangers]] survived for a year inside it without sustenance. |
| 98 | * Inverted in ''Series/TheLostRoom''; [[spoiler:The Occupant]] can only be killed inside said room, [[spoiler:upon which the killer becomes the new Occupant]]. |
| 99 | * The second season of ''Series/MetalHurlantChronicles'' starts with a castle where nobody can be killed, they resurrect seconds later, though it doesn't prevent death by old age. Unfortunately, the king's two sons have a disagreement over which one should inherit... |
| 100 | * ''Series/{{Neverland}}'': While the place's exact nature isn't very clear in [[Literature/PeterPan J. M. Barrie's works]], this series depicts Neverland as a planet paradoxically at both center and edges of the universe where time stands still due to external cosmic forces converging there because of its location and prevents anyone living there from ageing. |
| 101 | * ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E13BattleLines Battle Lines]]", the penal colony moon that is home to the Ennis and Nol-Ennis serves as this. The moon has some combination of satellites and microcellular technology that causes anyone killed to be resurrected shortly after. The two factions are at war and [[ForeverWar have been for hundreds of years]], to the point that none of them can remember what the original fighting was about. Worse still, [[NoImmortalInertia once killed on the moon, you cannot leave without dying instantly]], which is why [[spoiler:Kai Opaka]] ends up choosing to stay on the moon to try and broker peace, no matter how long it takes. |
| 102 | * ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E8YearOfHell Year of Hell]]", the temporal core of the Krenim Temporal Weapon Ship acts as one of these, as it protects the ship and its crew from normal space-time. They've been engaged in their mission for 200 years by the time of the episode, and their leader, Annorax, states that they can continue for all eternity if need be. [[WhoWantsToLiveForever Not all of them are happy about this prospect]]. |
| 103 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has the episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E15DeathTakesAHoliday Death Takes a Holiday]]", in which the people of Greybull, Wyoming aren't dying even after fatal injuries or illnesses because [[spoiler:the local [[TheGrimReaper Reaper]] was [[DeathTakesAHoliday kidnapped]] to be one of the two sacrifices for breaking one of the seals imprisoning Lucifer]]. |
| 104 | * ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'': The AncientConspiracy create a planet-wide one of these [[spoiler:by feeding the immortal Captain Jack's blood to a mysterious underground...thing]], which alters the "morphic field" that connects humanity. [[spoiler:Jack's old flame Angelo creates an [[InvertedTrope inversion]] using a "null field" generator taken from an alien spacecraft, neutralising the morphic field around his sickbed and allowing him to die]]. |
| 105 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': By taking the symbolism of movies preserving a moment forever and turning it into reality, the [[TrappedInTVLand Movie Land]] from "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E4TheSixteenMillimeterShrine The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine]]" is a place where [[WhiteDwarfStarlet Barbara Jean Tranton]] can indefinitely relive her GloryDays. |
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| 108 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 109 | * Defied by the saying "[[GratuitousLatin Et in Arcadia ego]]", which means "Even in Arcadia, there am I (Death)". Similar to "memento mori", it's a reminder that Death is everywhere, even in a {{Utopia}}, or that it is inevitable. |
| 110 | * Myth/ArthurianLegend: Myth/KingArthur was sent to Avalon, where its inhabitants live long, so that [[KingInTheMountain he may one day return]]. |
| 111 | * Literature/TheBible's GardenOfEden is depicted as a place of everlasting joy without death and Adam and Eve's expulsion from it deprived them of those blessings. This is subverted in that it's falling out of God's favor, not the physical act of leaving the Garden, that made them lose their eternal life and experience physical death. |
| 112 | * In Myth/ChineseMythology, Mount Penglai has no pain and no winter. There are rice bowls and wine glasses that never stay empty no matter how much people eat or drink from them and there are also magical fruits growing in there that can heal any disease, grant eternal youth, and even raise the dead. |
| 113 | * In Myth/ClassicalMythology, Antaeus remains invincible as long as he remains in contact with his [[EarthMother mother, Gaia (the Earth)]]. He challenges passers-by to wrestling matches and because Greek wrestling, like its modern equivalent, typically involves forcing opponents to the ground, he always wins and kills his opponents. Antaeus fights Heracles on the latter's way to the Garden of Hesperides for his 11th Labor. Heracles realizes that he could not beat Antaeus by throwing or pinning him, so he lifts and then crushes him to death in a KillerBearHug. |
| 114 | * This is parodied by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0d7SU8waPM the land of Cockaigne]]/Cockaygne/[[InconsistentSpelling etc]]. (yes, pronounced like the drug) from TheMiddleAges. Basically, it's a land of eternal youth where not only [[EverythingTryingToKillYou Everything is Trying to Keep You Alive]], but Everything is Trying to Spoil You. How it brings this about could range from the simple, like food [[RainOfSomethingUnusual falling from the sky]], to the grotesque, like roasted pigs wandering with [[HumanPincushion knives impaled on their backs]] and [[LetsMeetTheMeat inviting people to eat them]]. But the only road that leads there is covered in feces, which reaches up to the chin and will take seven years to cross according to [[https://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/complaintlit/cokaygne.html this poem]]. |
| 115 | * [[https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/legend-ois-n-and-fabled-island-t-r-na-n-g-tale-paradise-love-and-loss-002810 Tir na nOg]] from Myth/IrishMythology might seem like it's playing it straight when its literal meaning in Irish is "Land of the Young" and it's described to have "no illness or death or time, but only happiness and beauty", but, just like the Dragon Castle for [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Urashima Taro]], it is deconstructed when mortals visit it. Leaving it reveals that a [[YearOutsideHourInside hundred years pass in the otherworld for every one in the real world]] and breaking a certain condition will [[NoImmortalInertia cause your real age to catch up]]. |
| 116 | * Dilmun from Myth/MesopotamianMythology is the UrExample. A passage ('[Dilmun's] old woman says not "I am an old woman," its old man says not "I am an old man."') implies that it's a place of eternal youth. It is also described as a pure, clean, and bright "abode of the immortals" where death, disease, and sorrow are unknown, and some mortals have been given "life like a god's". ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'' has Dilmun as one of the eponymous hero's destinations in his [[ImmortalitySeeker quest for immortality]]. |
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| 119 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 120 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The Astral Plane is a timeless VoidBetweenTheWorlds where visitors stop aging and [[TheNeedless don't need food or water]]. However, sources differ as to whether the lost time [[NoImmortalInertia catches up retroactively]] when people leave the Plane, so {{Dimensional Traveler}}s should exercise caution. |
| 121 | * In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', it is inverted with [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace the Warp]], as daemons can be KilledOffForReal there. A daemon's physical form in realspace is only a "manifestation", but their true "presence" is in the warp and destroying it causes their true death. "Killing" them in realspace only banishes them back to the Warp unless it's through [[IKnowYourTrueName knowing their true names]], a special ritual or relic, or overwhelming [[PsychicPowers psychic might]]. |
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| 124 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 125 | * The titular loop from ''VideoGame/{{Deathloop}}'' causes the day to reset at midnight every day, undoing everything that happened during it and bringing everyone who died back to life. The loop seems to only encompass the isle of Blackreef, though there are several notes from people wondering if any time would have passed in the outer world and how exactly a stable time loop for a single island interacts with the rest of the world at large. |
| 126 | * The titular location in ''VideoGame/{{Everhood}}'' is a space where you're immortal for as long as you live there. Mostly. The Everhood hosted countless people, but over billions upon billions of years of existence, the inhabitants grew bored and gave in to various vices to stave off nihilism. Everhood inhabitants can only die if they are killed, and they began picking each other off until only a couple dozen inhabitants remain, trying to go about their days by getting rid of the one person left with the power to kill them. |
| 127 | * The Neath of ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' is shielded from the light of the sun, which enforces such laws as "people die when they are killed". Accordingly, those killed in the Neath can come back to life afterward, as long as their body isn't mangled too badly -- but [[NoImmortalInertia it won't stick if they leave]]. |
| 128 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': During the runup to the final boss inside Sin, you are forced to kill your own Aeons to prevent the boss possessing them. All your characters get an auto-revive during this battle, making losing the battle a SelfImposedChallenge. [[spoiler:The final boss himself is one of the least challenging fights due in no small part to his subversion of ContractualBossImmunity.]] |
| 129 | * ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'': The waters of the fountain of Lemuria greatly slow the aging process of those who drink it, allowing them to extend their lifespan for centuries. Only one outsider ever stole water from there, but as his supply ran out, he mounted doomed expeditions to retrieve more, [[spoiler:eventually dying offscreen between the first two games]]. |
| 130 | * ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'': |
| 131 | ** The Nexus supposedly doesn't let the Heroes die permanently so that they can be forced to battle for eternity,[[note]][[VideoGame/WorldOfWarCraft Chromie]] is the only one aware that the battles have been [[GroundhogDayLoop repeating over and over again]], implying that all matches that occur between players are canon.[[/note]] if its description as a "limbo" of clashing universes is an indication. |
| 132 | ** Tyrael's first Heroic can create a sanctified ground that makes all allies invulnerable while they remain inside. |
| 133 | * ''VideoGame/IMissTheSunrise'': The {{Trope Namer|s}} for ImmortalityInducer, a.k.a. the +ii. It works by emitting radiation that stops cell aging around an area, and is mass-produced, effectively making the entire human race immortal. However, overexposure to it can [[DrivenToMadness drive people insane]]. |
| 134 | * ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Kindred's Ultimate ability, Lamb's Respite, prevents everything within a small area from dying for a few seconds, then heals them for a flat amount after it expires. Pretty strong if your team is losing a fight, letting you essentially become invincible and tip the scales. |
| 135 | * It's [[ImpliedTrope implied]] to be the case with the Spirit Tree in ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest'', as the Tree not only gives life to the forest but it can also revive the titular Ori, who happen to be their child, but the reach of the Tree's power aren't made clear. |
| 136 | * Baptiste from ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has an ability called "Immortality Field" that deploys a field-generating object that prevents his teammates in its AreaOfEffect from being killed when they reach a certain percent of their [[HitPoints health]]. The field generator itself can be destroyed. |
| 137 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'', Fernando's Ultimate, named "Immortal," prevents his allies from dying in an AreaOfEffect. Allies, as well as himself, cannot be brought below 1500 [[HitPoints HP]] when it's active. |
| 138 | * Rare monsters and totems in ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'' may have "other allies cannot die" as one of their randomly-generated mods. While the monster bearing the mod itself ''can'' be killed, any other monsters around them cannot go below 1 HP as long as they are affected by the aura. |
| 139 | * ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'': |
| 140 | ** ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' had a prison which caused this effect, used to hold Illidan Stormrage. It apparently causes a constant regeneration effect (probably similar to the druid spell Regrowth). This was to prevent him from killing himself since night elves couldn't normally die of old age. Although this was probably done out of love by Malfurion, it's unlikely Illidan [[AndIMustScream saw it that way]]. Illidan does eventually get released and the night elves eventually lose their immortality as well since, surprise surprise, they weren't exactly responsible enough to handle it. |
| 141 | ** In a downplayed example, the Shadow Hunter HeroUnit from ''Warcraft III'' has a skill called "Big Bad [[HollywoodVoodoo Voodoo]]" that turns ally units gathered in an AreaOfEffect around him invulnerable [[HourOfPower for a few seconds]]. The catch is that the Shadow Hunter himself isn't affected by it, making him their AchillesHeel and it dispels upon his death. |
| 142 | ** ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has the Emerald Dream, the ethereal DreamLand that all life of Azeroth is tied to. Time is meaningless inside the Dream. The Dragons of the Green Aspect, which spend most of their time in the Dream, are extremely long-lived. Ysera's consorts in particular almost never emerge and are effectively immortal, and so are other permanent denizens from other races. However, the spread of the [[TheCorruption Emerald Nightmare]] brought death and decay to the areas of the Dream it affected. |
| 143 | * ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' has [[ChurchMilitant Harrow]] and his ultimate ability Covenant. Casting Covenant gives Harrow and allies within a 50-meter radius total immortality, as well as immunity to StandardStatusEffects. It lasts for a bare six seconds, but six seconds can be enough to rescue a downed ally or preserve a team that is on the verge of falling. As a bonus, you gain extra CriticalHit chance based on the amount of damage you negated during Covenant's active period. |
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| 146 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 147 | * ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'': The Hospital is a MagicalLand that grew out of the concept of healing. People who die within the Hospital can be fixed up and restored to life by the doctors, no matter how badly their bodies were mangled, because the Hospital protects their [[OurSoulsAreDifferent concept cores]]. |
| 148 | * The world of ''Webcomic/KidRadd'' works similarly to ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''; stay in your own game and you're fine, leave the game and you'll die permanently. However, at the end, a loophole is found where if the "ghost" of a dead character travels back to a copy of their original game and said game is rebooted, the character will resurrect because the alive/dead variable is able to be reset. |
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| 151 | [[folder:Websites]] |
| 152 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has several [[PlayedForHorror none too pleasant]] examples. |
| 153 | ** Any person placed inside [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-762 SCP-762]] enters a state of [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] and they would no longer need food, water, or even air and they are immune to disease and injury (when it was found, it contained someone who was probably stuck inside for centuries)... except those caused by its own spikes, because it's an IronMaiden, in a subversion. As a torture device, its primary purpose is likely not to keep people alive but to prolong the victim's suffering. The person inside is conscious the whole time and the experience is described to be very painful. This is double subverted afterwards as even those wounds heal completely after the person is released. |
| 154 | ** There's also [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-135 SCP-135]], a girl with an aura that makes her and any other organic matter within a 10 cm radius immortal, while causing rapid and uncontrolled cell growth -- AKA ''cancer''-- within 2.25 meters. Having developed this aura ''in utero'', she is stuck in a fetal position and permanently encrusted in a constantly growing mass of plants, fungi, and microorganisms. The most that can be done for her is to have robots cut off some of the excess matter when it gets too big. ''[[AndIMustScream She has full brain activity]].'' |
| 155 | ** One of the proposals of SCP-001 is known as "God's Blind Spot", an area in the Middle East where there exists no [[BackgroundMagicField "Akiva radiation"]], i.e., the permeance of the Judeo-Christian {{God}} Himself, the story being based on how in the ''Literature/BookOfExodus'', God sought to kill Moses but somehow failed to, suggesting the area as the reason why. Without His oversight, nobody inside can age or die of natural causes, as well as some unnatural causes within reason. Unsurprisingly, it's proposed that the SCP Foundation's [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness O5 Council]] decided to set up their headquarters there. |
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| 158 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 159 | * ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Scrooge's parents became immortal thanks to Scrooge using [[MineralMacGuffin mystical druid stones]] to rebuild their ancestral home of Castle [=McDuck=]. Unfortunately, it also prevents them from leaving the castle and it [[VanishingVillage can only be seen and visited every five years]] when the mists of Dismal Downs dissipate. |
| 160 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 161 | ** The second movie, "[[Recap/FuturamaM2TheBeastWithABillionBacks The Beast with a Billion Backs]]", almost ends with the entire universe, except the {{Robot}}s, living in a Utopian setting on a galaxy-sized, tentacled alien named Yivo who loves everyone (romantically), renders them immortal, and looks like TheThemeParkVersion of [[FluffyCloudHeaven Heaven]]. [[spoiler:Then a jealous Bender and his robotic army invade "Heaven" and end up getting everyone exiled... [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg except]] [[HaremSeeker Colleen O'Hallahan]].]] |
| 162 | ** The four-dimensional SpaceWhale [[Recap/FuturamaS6E15MobiusDick Mobius Dick]] has a "Mobius colon", in place of regular internal organs, which recycles time and space. Those who stay inside the colon don't age, but those who are absorbed into the whale's flesh, a la [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean the Flying Dutchman's crew]], stay alive but [[AgeWithoutYouth continue to age]]. |
| 163 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS3E6DeadReckoning Dead Reckoning]]", the monks of Nanda Parbat temporarily die when its Heart is stolen by the Legion of Doom and its inhabitants' souls are absorbed into it. When it's shattered, the souls return, and the temple master declares, "No one dies in Nanda Parbat." |
| 164 | * Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'' with the Earth for the Stellairians. The Earth's atmosphere can cause a Stellairian to age a [[TwoOfYourEarthMinutes hundred Earth years]] in [[RapidAging a day]] if they don't use their age-regressing hypo-spray. |
| 165 | * The {{Trope Namer|s}} is the "Immortality Field Resort" from the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E5TheWhirlyDirlyConspiracy The Whirly-Dirly Conspiracy]]", where such a field brings its visitors back to life even after dying gruesomely. It served its purpose well, until an incident with the Whirly-Dirly destroyed whatever is generating the field. |
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